Kingdom Hearts 3 Review - IGN

Kingdom Hearts 3's fulfilling evolution and resolution of the franchise shows the series is still full of heart.

[Elda]

Their score is basically a 9,I'll be picking up my copy Tuesday.

[UnSelf]

No, the score is basically an 8.7. The sooner you are real with yourself, the sooner you'll stop inflating the things you like to make them seem better.

A 9 is a 9. This game isnt a 9 according to IGN.

[SixFragz]

"According to IGN"... that's the problem.

Game is a 9.

[Minimox16]

Too Much Disney Characters, 8.7/10

[UnSelf]

Not one cogent rebuttal. Gaming is on the decline and you pacified, spoiled gamers is the reason why. The sooner you relinquish your die-hard attachment to a franchise, console or brand the sooner this industry will turn around.

Anyway, I may pick this title up because im loving the evolution of the ARPG genre and the inevitable fading of turn-base. It is an antiquated system that is praised for its strategy-grounded dynamic but a great develope should be able to implement both styles in one and if you cant keep up then you have some evolving to do yourself.

[Elda]

If you know anything about math rounding off a 8.7 is basically a 9. Please get over yourself & come back to earth.

[Traecy]

Nope.

[RebelWAC]

"Not one cogent rebuttal. Gaming is on the decline and you pacified, spoiled gamers is the reason why. The sooner you relinquish your die-hard attachment to a franchise, console or brand the sooner this industry will turn around."

So you're saying that we all should relinquish our attachment to the franchise and pass it on to one review from IGN? That just doesn't sound right.

Anyhow, 8.7 is still a massive score in my book no matter who gave the score.

[Marioraider18]

The game is an 8.7. That's the way IGN grades it. It is a more accurate rating than rounding it off to a 9. I remember when G4TV show had ratings of 1 - 5 stars. This makes it harder to decide how good a game is when the score doesn't have many options. Would you rather go to a hotel that is rated 92/100 or one that is rated 4 out of 5 stars?

Good news is that this game is the highest rating from IGN out of Kingdom Hearts I and Kingdom Hearts II.

[S2Killinit]

And IGN’s credibility is a 3. What now?

[OMNlPOTENT]

You seem like a fun person to be around.

[neutralgamer1992]

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that's the problem with today's gamers they want reviews to be honest and upfront but than they also want certain numbered scores to go to their favorite games. Anything below and the reviewer don't know what he or she are talking about. a simple question when someone is playing a game do they get more joy out of the game knowing it got 9/10 instead of 8.7/10?

zelda BOTW reviews are key point in this argument few sites that gave it 9/.10 instead of 10/10 received death threats. In my opinion that game isn't what reviews make it out to be but i understand my opinion is in minority and we all don't like the same games

[yoshatabi]

You must be fun at parties

[Muigi]

If you round up it is *_*.

[sprinterboy]

I think you missed the joke

[Nacho_Z]

That difference of 3% doesn't mean jack really. Get the same person to score it on a different day and they might have given it a 9.3.

[Marioraider18]

@Nacho
Or an 8.4 which would round it down lower :)

[Orionsangel]

IGN isn't the final word.

[Eonjay]

Strangely enough they makes this game sound like a 10 to actual fans.

[tombfan]

Yup, it's a 10 for fans, 8.7 it's like a breezy KH game, even better than the old ones.

[notachance]

"Kingdom Hearts 3's fulfilling evolution and resolution of the franchise shows the series is still full of heart."

the fans only need to see this line tbh

[stupidusername]

The reviewer is a giant KH fan. He’s followed the series since the start and talks about on every single Playstation podcast IGN releases.
So it’s probably a 10 for fans coming from him, but because he’s supposed to be professional he can’t geek all out and has to take faults into consideration.

[Palitera]

Closer to 8.5. Just saying.

[gamer7804]

Meta is closer to a 9, at 8.9 just saying :)

[Palitera]

Jesus, you people are really insecure about your niche. Dear god...

[LegoIsAwesome]

Chill. Ign gave RE2RE a 8.7 then suddenly became a 9.

[Elda]

Exactly.

[OT79]

I notice that, that was really weird, someone knows what happen?

[Jin_Sakai]

Great score. This will be the first Mindim Hearts game I’ve played. Hope it all makes sense.

Curious as to why their review is listed under Xbox One on Metacritic when the video review specifically said reviewed on PS4 Pro at the end?

[Traecy]

Yep!

[neutralgamer1992]

elda

why do you care if it's a 8.7 or 9? if you like the series regardless of the score it seems KH3 is a great game

[Elda]

Why do you care what I care about???? Smh.

[Cobra951]

Well, it's an 87%. Sure it rounds out to an integer 9 on a scale of 10; but why lower the precision? It's a great score, with or without rounding.

[sprinterboy]

Haha very funny.

[notachance]

wonder if they'll bump this to 9 too after the secret ending get patched

[UnSelf]

an arbitrary number shouldnt sway your personal experience.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

That's not what the person is saying, it's in reference to an older IGN review where they altered the review post-launch because they missed something that brought the score down. Or, they were talking about the latest RE2 review where they based the score off of the non-cannon storyline (since you can play both campaigns in any order, but only one gets you the complete story) and gave it negatives marks because of it.

[notachance]

my comment is about IGN's revision of their RE2 review score, because hilariously the main reason they docked the score is there in the game all along, just that the reviewer hadn't played the game enough to find it before the initial review went live.

[DaDrunkenJester]

It took this long to come out... why not just wait until the patch was ready to release the game?

[CloudStrife900]

If I recall, they withheld the ending via a patch on purpose to save spoilers :)

Though, in this age, it'll be out in the wild long before many get to that point in the game anyhow.

[notachance]

supposedly to prevent spoiler, but come next tuesday it'll be all over internet anyway.
going off internet really is the best way to not get spoiled.

[PyroPotatoe]

https://www.youtube.com/cha...

[JamesGAMESYOUTUBE]

8.7 is a really good score! I believe IGN gave KH2 a 7.6. Tuesday can't come fast enough!

[criticalkare]

Is it fake?

[TheGamez100]

Many critic scores might be lower just because youll need to know the story of all the previous games otherwise nothing would make sense so i dont expect much 10s. And some reviewers mightve just sped through the game instead of fully enjoying it in order to finish the game for the embargo.

[Lovable]

Amazing score..Another great game to spend my money on.

[EddieNX]

GOTY so far. Glad they put it on Xbox so I can play this on my X.

[EddieNX]

Cmon guys. It's a good thing that it's on Xbox as well as its original platform, PlayStation.

I'm just genuinely happy it's on Xbox as well...

[Jman1553]

You weren't bowing down to sony, so you get downsides.
Pls downvote me too

[DerekTweed]

I genuinely believe that if this was a PS4 exclusive, it would be getting 10's all over the place abd everyone one here would be covered in ectoplasm/.

[Soybetaboy]

RE2>KH3

[Neonridr]

remember guys.. it's just a number. If it's a 10 to you, then that's all that matters. And an 8.7 is an 8.7 not a 9.0. We don't round in scoring, just like you don't say you got 90% on your test when you got an 87.

[antikbaka]

predictable and simplistic story... is it really KH3?

[hades07]

Have to give Kudos where Kudos are due and this is a well written review. Despite the score at the end they detail the game at length in a way that you are prepared for what is great, good and not so well with this game. Their RE2 Remake review on the other hand was HORRIBLE

[Zool 08]

8.7? They're taking the Mickey 😊

[CloudStrife900]

That was a Goofy comment :)

[bigmalky]

All I'm picking up from reviews, is that it has flashy combat, while the worlds (which seem empty) and story are serviceable.

So, like FFXV, sparkly things deserve praise, and the rest is just irrelevant?

[Platformgamer]

this game is a 9/10
it could be a near 10 if final fantasy characters where in it, but from what i read they're 100% absent (moogle doesn't count).
also, a lot of reviewers are saying that the ost this time is less impactful than the ones on KH1 and 2.
yep, a 9/10 overrall

[badboyz09]

Is it me or do youjsut have that feeling that Nextgen will be lacking?

[FallenAngel1984]

Can’t trust a site that called Roxas a garbage character

[InKnight7s]

THIS REVIEW FULL OF SPOILERS!!! WT!!!!!!

[jairusmonillas]

lol @ anyone taking IGN's review scores seriously.
the same site that copy paste some random videos in youtube and even pretends to play the whole game but only like 30% of it because they are lazy lol.

and lol @ mediocre gamers who keeps relying on review scores.

[DerekTweed]

We need something to help make decisions about which games to buy. We can't buy and play every game.

If it wasn't for the universally high review scores for Persona 5, I would never have bought that game.

[KingBeed]

i mean not to bash the many die hard fans but the game is averaging an 88% on metacritic right now, you can cry all you want but
a) none of you have played it and
b) most people are giving it a similar grade so you wanna go upend every review of this game? probably not!

[DerekTweed]

88 is a good score, it's 1 point higher than Spider-man.

[zodiac909]

I bet this score will be bumped up to a 9 within the next few days, just like RE2 was. LOL IGN is such a joke.

[Nebaku]

Not gonna lie, the battle system looks like an absolute blast, and has me optimistic about FF7 remake's which seems to use the same engine.

[razascallinus]

I reckon if this was still just a ps exclusive it would be better tbh. Think ms involvement deducted that 0.3 down from a 9.